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Falling Apart, Barely Breathing

In Which Addison meets Meredith in a bar. Things spiral from there. This is the story about wha t might have happened after Meredith asks Derek to "Pick Me, Choose Me, Love Me" but before he decides to do anything about it, and after SHE decides to do something about it. MerAdd. Meddison. Set during "Bring the Pain" GA. An Addison Montgomery/Meredith Grey - Grey's Anatomy Fanfiction. Written by bobbiejelly

Chapter 36: With a Wonderful and Wild Wardrobe Malfunction

Taking extra showers a day can be a real pain...Or not...

"You're not Cristina?" Addison says to Meredith in question when she walks in with Izzie Stevens to work on the Pyloric Stenosis case with her.

It's not in a menacing tone, more of a tone of confusion as Addison tries to update the chart in a panic and notify the nurses of her change in the staffing.

"I'm not Cristina," Meredith says to her bitterly, and Addison has no idea why this would set Meredith off until Izzie nudges her in the shoulder and raises her eyebrows pointedly at Addison again.

"Oh," Addison says before she can recover.

"Oh, it's not about that, I was just surprised, I promise," Addison says trying to backtrack.

Meredith looked like she wanted to burn Addison or something because calling her "not Cristina" just reminded Meredith pointedly that she had NOT gotten to be Addison Montgomery's very first girl-kiss EVER and that made her furious already, without being called "not Cristina."

"Cristina's with Burke. She wanted Cardio. We traded," Meredith says to her, trying to jog Addison's memory.

For a second there, Meredith is terrified that Addison had had a blackout after only three Gin and Tonics and that she'd have to explain their whole evening all over.

But luckily for all of them, this is not really the case. Addison does remember, it just takes her a second to place it. And then Addison nods, remembering the part about Meredith being excited about the babies.

And then she smiles at her and says thank-you for offering Cristina a cardio case because even Addison had been unable to talk Burke into it after a short discussion at the bar before the interns had even arrived.

And Meredith nods at her skeptically, before Izzie settles in again, too. Because she wasn't as upset as Meredith but she also doesn't like to be reminded of the Addison-Kissing-Cristina thing, because it makes her jealous of Addison for kissing Cristina, whereas Meredith is jealous of Cristina for kissing Addison.

There's also the fact that this room is sort of super awkward and dangerous and a land-mine now.

Because Addison knows that Izzie knows about her whole story and identity as the 'mystery person' but has promised not to give Meredith any more hints so Addison can break the news about it all for herself.

And Izzie knows that Addison is thinking this as she tries to be a good and fair teacher to both of them while secretly crushing on Meredith while Meredith is secretly crushing on her right back.

And THEN there's the whole question of Anna and Emmett, who both know that Doctor Montgomery and Doctor Grey are both having 'love problems like you wouldn't BELIEVE'.

And that Meredith had made a 'secret admirer' gift and that Addison had a 'secret admirer' and that they figured these things were related but they weren't going to say that to either of them.

And they didn't know that Izzie didn't know about the whole 'secret admirer' whole thing; only about the 'mystery person' thing so she was missing a secret admirer mystery, so to speak.

And Meredith knew that Addison had had a wet dream and called out for her in her sleep, and Addison knew that Meredith had been watching her get undressed only mere minutes ago.

And all of this plus two babies still-unnamed with the placeholders "X" for the girl and "Y" for the boy is really starting to make things extremely exciting for the day they should finally be able to operate on these two patients, at long last for everyone involved.

"These twins are SO CUTE!" Izzie coos as she gets them to grip onto her fingers.

Addison had always admired Izzie's way with babies, and she smiles down at her as X latches on securely to Izzie's pinky and it makes her giggle a lot.

And then Meredith gets a bit jealous of Addison's eye-praise so she tries to get Y to latch onto her but Y just seems super fussy, so Meredith doesn't have much success.

And Meredith thinks it's a failure on her part before Addison explains that X had gotten sick this morning and Y probably just had a sore tummy because he hadn't spit-up yet at all.

And Meredith starts saying "oh," as Y starts, predictably, spitting up all over Meredith.

And Meredith yelps a bit, because she hadn't been expecting it as Addison, reacts without thinking and lifts her right up and carries her out of the way as Izzie lays down an absorbent towel in front of them.

Meredith is too startled to thank Izzie so Addison does that for her.

And Anna and Emmett look at Meredith sympathetically and apologize for the grossness, saying it's just in the territory.

And Meredith is more sure than ever she made the right decision to help Anna and Emmett get some the night they all went to Joe's because it sure isn't fair that they hadn't had a second to themselves without being all covered in... Goo.

And Addison says Meredith should take a break and change, and asks Izzie to cover for them as Addison carries Meredith back to the on-call room because her shoes are all covered and Addison doesn't want her to get it all over the floor.

"You know, I thought that the first time you carried me into bed that it would be more...Romantic than this," Meredith snarks as Addison can't help but laugh at the irony of this situation.

"How about I carry you to the shower then, as you recover with a wonderful and wild wardrobe malfunction, so I'm not spoiling a future potential memory," Addison offers and Meredith smirks, knowing she's won because she's extracted a promise from Addison that there would be a 'first time for her to be carrying her to the bedroom'.

"Umm, do you want me to, umm-" Addison stammers at Meredith in the exact same place for the exact same reason that she had stammered in front of Meredith that first night when helping Meredith get ready for bed.

It was the moment when she didn't know if she was supposed to be helping Meredith get undressed or not, or whether to leave or not and so she's really not sure so she's stammering.

"Normally I would ask you to take off all my clothes, Montgomery, but I'm sort of all gross and you already showered twice today so I don't want you to have to shower three times because it's bad for your skin, which you obviously care so much about," Meredith snarks back at her.

"How did you know that I showered twice?" Addison asks, thinking that Meredith had been asleep for the first one. Or the second one. She doesn't remember.

"Lucky guess," Meredith smirks, and Addison for the life of her has no sweet clue why.

"Oh-okay I'll just ah" Addison reddens as Meredith grins even wider, as Meredith stops her before reaching the door.

She calls out for Addison and asks her, in a mock pleading tone "can I borrow your moisturizer? It looked sort of magical this morning," Meredith asks in a fake-innocent tone.

"Oh," Addison shrugs and realizes she'd been expecting or not expecting or wanting or… She'd half-thought Meredith was going to change her mind and say 'strip me' or something more elegant or less elegant than that.

"It's over there on the shelf by the bed, give me a minute," says Addison.

"Hey, where did the sheets go," Addison asks in confusion.

"They must have been changed or cleaned or something," Meredith calls out, back turned to Addison so she won't see Meredith biting her lip hard not to moan at the memory.

"Oh, okay, ah, good I guess. I think mine got sticky, anyway," Addison says to her casually and Meredith tries not to erupt into a roar.

"Well, yeah, good for you," Meredith just calls out and Addison can't quite place her tone.

And then Meredith thinks of something and says she has no shampoo and conditioner here. And Addison is chiding herself for not thinking to pack that for Meredith as she gets out her own from her purse and she offers them out to her.

Then she thinks to offer her perfume as well because she'd been paranoid earlier that the smell would be different.

"Be back in a minute!" Meredith calls out to Addison as she steps in the shower.

And Meredith winks at her before she gets in, knowing that Addison will be picturing her wet and naked and that that really turns Meredith on, to have all that power of imagination over her boss.

And as we know it to be, Addison IS picturing Meredith getting naked right now and it makes it hard for her to focus as she places Meredith's soiled scrubs into the laundry chute and notices her sheets from this morning and wonders to herself if it had been Meredith who had taken care of them, and if so, why.

But Addison just figures Meredith always does nice things for other people too, not just her. And that she liked to do nice things for her anyway.

So she doesn't expect to see what happens next, but what happens next is that MEREDITH comes out of the shower wrapped in only a towel.

And Addison's jaw almost drops at the sighs of the beautiful blonde laid right out in front of her, the tips of her calves exposed, her collar bone prominent, her shoulders all bare and her hair all cascaded out like a waterfall.

"Mm, like what you see, Doctor Montgomery," Meredith hums at her.

('You really do, don't you' Addison's subconscious fights with her.)

('HOLY SHIT SHE IS NAKED UNDER THAT TOWEL' the other part of her subconscious announces to her.)

('You really wanna pull that towel off of her, now don't you,' argues her subconscious again.)

('Not that time, we are at WORK' part of Addison's brain tries to put up a fight, back')

('Didn't stop her and DEREK to get it on in this hospital, remember your blind and jealous rage over THAT one, Doctor Montgomery')

('Why the Doctor Montgomery's all of a sudden?' 'If you're ME then why don't you be more informal?')

('We were just mimicking Meredith calling you that in a sort of half-kinky way like she wanted to imply 'playing doctor' with her, not that you ARE both doctors, though that helps, too...')

('Right well I'm gonna go back to talking with Doctor Grey now and try not to get fired so you might wanna tone it down a notch, just a little…')

('Whatever you say, DOCTOR MONTGOMERY…')

('Shut UP!')

"Oh," Addison responds dumbly because usually, she breaks out of an inner monologue by screaming the last thing she heard from her thoughts, but that would be "shut UP" and she doesn't think that will help.

('Because then Meredith might say "MAKE ME" and that will make you want to tackle her to the convenient BED that is right next to you both and kiss the hell out of you until she flips you and strips you and screws you sideways until you're both screaming out each other's names')

"Seriously?!" Meredith exclaims incredulously at Addison and Addison realizes she might actually be offended by that.

"Oh, Grey I am so, so, sorry I didn't mean to imply you're not attractive because you really are, or that I didn't or I don't or I think you look really great actually, and I mean I can't compliment the outfit you're wearing because you're only wearing a towel, but I mean… You look great" Addison finally manages to finish off an external monologue with a semi-coherent conclusion.

"Why thank you, Doctor Montgomery," Meredith says in a low and seductive tone and it's making Addison's insides heat up again and wow her raging libido is making an appearance at the most inappropriate of moments.

"Mm, now do you want to watch? Because I believe that I owe you one of these from this morning…" Meredith purrs.

And Addison has decided she's totally ready to forgive Derek for sleeping with this woman on the first day he met her because she is literally the definition of sexy now, as she allows her towel to drop right to the floor before even waiting for Addison to finish answering her damn question.

***** END OF CHAPTER 36

Author's Note 2:

Hey, I really wanted to update this more but I wasn't going to post anything at all because I am really tired tonight, and I thought this teaser might be even better than nothing.

Today has been a blast writing four chapters right away on "Soothe" which I hope you might check out! It's a story about MerAdd during the GA/PP Crossover of February 2009.

Enjoy the next approximately 48 hours before the next installment. I do update almost daily now, like clockwork. But if I have enough written and I get enough reviews I MAY POST EARLY!

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Yours, truly, bobbiejelly